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2017-07-27T13:41:28Z
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Editorial Note
Renes, Cornelis Martin
Ribas Segura, Catalina
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 17 (2015): Special monograph edition: Aspiration, Achievement and Abandonment in ‘The World’s Best Country’
Coolabah; No. 17 (2015): Special monograph edition: Aspiration, Achievement and Abandonment in ‘The World’s Best Country’
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15418/18592
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15419
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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Editorial: After the Water has been Shed
Renes, Cornelis Martin
Ribas Segura, Catalina
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 1-3
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 1-3
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15419/18593
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15420
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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Pedagogical Change at Times of Change in the Higher Education System: An Exploration of Early Career Mentoring, Co-publication and Teaching & Learning Insights
Bill, Boyd
change in higher education
scholarly culture
career mentoring
research
scholarship of teaching & learning
team-based research.
Universities are at a time of change. Their social, political and economic conditions are under challenge, while technological change challenges curriculum design and implementation, requiring reconsiderations of teaching and learning practices. In this context, and as part of the conference session on Higher education in 2014: threshold, watershed or business as usual?, I reviewed an approach I have been trialing to supporting early- and mid-career academics to navigate through this changing environment. This paper presents an illustrated essay on a human-scale approach to early- and mid-career mentoring through the establishment of small team-based research and writing projects. The essay provides examples of activities that, on the one hand, assist academics to develop the tools they need to navigate the new and evolving environment of higher education, while on the other hand directly addresses key pedagogical issues and provides new insight into teaching and learning in higher education.
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15420
Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 4-24
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 4-24
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15420/18594
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15422
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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Literature as Protest and Solace: the Verse of Alf Taylor
Danica, Čerče
Australian indigenous poetry
Alf Taylor
Singer Songwriter
Winds
Although Australian indigenous poetry is often overtly polemical and politically committed, any reading which analyzes it as mere propaganda is too narrow to do it justice. By presenting the verse of Alf Taylor collected in Singer Songwriter (1992) and Winds (1994) and discussing it in the context of the wider social and cultural milieu of the author, my essay aims to show the thematic richness of indigenous poetic expression. Indigenous poets have, on the one hand, undertaken the responsibility to strive for social and political equality and foster within their communities the very important concept that indigenous peoples can survive only as a community and a nation (McGuiness). On the other hand, they have produced powerful self-revelatory accounts of their own mental and emotional interior, which urges us to see their careers in a perspective much wider than that of social chroniclers and rebels.
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15422
Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 25-33
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 25-33
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15422/18596
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15423
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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Transnationalism and the Decentralization of the Global Film Industry
Jordi, Codó Martínez
cinema
Asia
transnational
As in other aspects of society (politics, economics), the film industry appears to be undergoing a process of decentralization (still in its infancy) by which Asia is, if not overtaking, at least matching its level of influence with that of European and American powers. Much of the impetus shifting this balance corresponds to China. The spectacular growth of China‟s domestic market is concentrating a substantial part of the global film business within this Asian giant, resulting in the still sector leader, the United States, conditioning its production in order to maximize profits in that territory. Resolute internationalization policies are also helping Chinese companies gain a foothold in Western countries conditioning film content there, although paradoxically their audiences remain unwilling to consume cinema that is culturally foreign. This essay will attempt to explain how all this has occurred.
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15423
Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 34-47
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 34-47
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15423/18597
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15424
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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Negotiating ‘Negative Capability’: The Role of Place in Writing
Lynda, Hawryluk
Leni, Shilton
Landscape
poetry
glimpse
Taking its lead from the poet John Keats‟ notion of „negative capability‟ (1891, p. 48), this paper explores the methodology of representing landscapes in writing, specifically using place to effect the process of „…being capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubt, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason…‟ (ibid). Keats refers to the poet as „taking part‟ in the life of the poem (1891, p. 48). Being in the poem this way attempts to allow the reader to experience the emotion of the poem. Mary Oliver extrapolated this by referring to „the “mere” diction of the poem [being] the vehicle that holds then transfers from the page to the reader an absolutely essential quality of real feeling‟ (1994, p 84). This paper focuses on the work of two Australian writers whose work captures in verse a sense of connection to rugged and remote terrains. To evoke this sense of connection, Keats‟ negative capability comes into play. This moment is described here as a metaphysical space where a meditative state provides the writer with moments described in this paper as a „glimpse‟. The „glimpse‟ is a recognition of that moment of connection, without which „poetry cannot happen‟ (Oliver, 1994 p. 84). For our purposes here, we read this as being about the connection to a place as written on the page and how that then broadens out upon reading to become a connection to something beyond the notion of specific place. Keats own words speak to this possibility, of allowing uncertainty to provide a sense of meaning and connection. This paper demonstrates, via creative practice and the work of like-minded Australian poets, the internal and external processes that take place to facilitate the „glimpse‟ and inform our own writing about landscapes. This writing is individually informed by knowledge about environment and notions of poetic space, where „aspects of the unconscious move into consciousness‟ (Hetherington, 2012 p. 8). The authors will explore the commonalities and distinctions between their work, using brief examples.
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15424
Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 48-73
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 48-73
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15424/18598
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15425
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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Louisa Lawson and the Woman Question
Anne, Holden Rønning
Louisa Lawson
Women‘s press in Australia
The Dawn
The start of the women‘s press in Britain in 1855 by Emily Faithfull was an important step on the path to emancipation – women had now a voice in the media. Thirty-three years later Louisa Lawson, who has been called the first voice of Australian feminism, published the first number of The Dawn. This was a watershed in that it gave women a voice, marked women‘s political engagement in the public sphere, and employed women compositors, making available to a broader public issues which were politically relevant. In the first number Lawson asks, ―where is the printing-ink champion of mankind‘s better half? There has hitherto been no trumpet through which the concentrated voices of womankind could publish their grievances and their opinions.‖ This article will look at some of the content in the journal during the seventeen years of its existence, 1888- 1905.
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15425
Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 74-86
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 74-86
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15425/18599
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15426
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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On Matteo Ricci’s Interpretations of Chinese Culture
Chen, Hong
Matteo Ricci
introducing Chinese learning to the West
understandings of Chinese culture
On the contribution to introducing Western learning to China by Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the 16th -century Italian Jesuit missionary to the Ming Dynasty, abundant research has been done; however, not so on his contribution to introducing Chinese learning to the West, and if so, not profoundly. Though Ricci‟s understandings of Chinese culture were found in every aspect of Ming Dynasty lives, this essay focuses on four important and representative aspects, and analyzes the political system of a government guided by philosophers, the confused outlooks of religious sects, Chinese ethics compared to Christian tenets, and the unique qualities of the Chinese language. It discloses Ricci‟s moderate (middle-of-the-road) attitude toward Chinese culture, especially his efforts to reconcile Confucianism and Christianity as well as his prejudice against Buddhism and Taoism, which shows on the one hand his broad-mindedness as a humanistic missionary, and on the other the historical or rather religious limitations of his absolute faith as a pious Catholic. Narrow-minded or broad-minded, Ricci‟s role as the first scholar who introduced Chinese learning to the West should not be neglected. One should bear in mind that it is Ricci who laid the foundation for European sinology.
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15426
Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 87-100
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 87-100
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15426/18600
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15427
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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Developing a Connective Feminine Discourse: Drusilla Modjeska on Women’s Lives, Love and Art
Ulla, Rahbek
Drusilla Modjeska
Art
Femininity
Feminism
Discourse
Life
Love
Women
This paper discusses the work of the Australian writer and historian Drusilla Modjeska through a focus on the intersections between women‟s lives, love and art, which constitute the central triptych of Modjeska‟s writing. It argues that Modjeska‟s oeuvre unfolds a connective feminine discourse through a development of what the paper calls hinging tropes, discursive connectors that join life, love and art, such as weaving, folding and talking. That connective feminine discourse is indeed central to Modjeska‟s personal and sometimes idiosyncratic feminism.
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15427
Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 101-111
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 101-111
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15427/18601
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15428
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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Identity and Friendship in Hsu-Ming Teo´s Behind the Moon (2000)
Ribas Segura, Catalina
Chinese Australian literature
identity
belonging
In her second novel, Behind the Moon (2000), Hsu-Ming Teo explores the identity construction of three teenage friends and how they defy the notion of the „ideal‟ Australian as a heterosexual, Protestant, white, English-speaking, Australian-born of British ancestry young adult person. Set in the western suburbs of Sydney in the 1990s, the three friends are an example of the multicultural society of the time: Justin Cheong, the son of a Chinese-Singaporean family who arrived in Australia with the Business Migration Programme; Tien Ho, a refugee girl of Chinese-Vietnamese and Afro-CajunCreole-American ancestry; and Nigel „Gibbo‟ Gibson, the son of an Anglo-Australian father and an English mother. The novel tackles different relations among these characters and their families during their teenage years and especially as young adults. This paper seeks to analyse the evolution of the identities of Justin, Tien and „Gibbo‟ through the notions of belonging, gender construction and sexuality. In order to do so, the main theories applied will be the insights on homosexuality and on masculinities of Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (1995) and Raewyn W. Connell (1995) and Manuel Castellsʼ (2010) identity construction theory
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15428
Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 112-121
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 112-121
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15428/18602
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15429
2017-08-30T08:12:20Z
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Doing it for Real: Designing Experiential Journalism Curricula that Prepare Students for the New and Uncertain World of Journalism Work
Jeanti, St Clair
journalism education
curriculum design
journalism 2.0
The world of journalism in the digital age is changing faster than university curricula can keep up. News is now produced in forms and on platforms that were nonexistent 10 years ago. Journalists may increasingly generate their own work opportunities in entrepreneurial news outlets and start-ups, rather than as employees in legacy newsprint and broadcast media. Substantial workforce contraction has also occurred since 2012 as revenue in print and other traditional media has found new homes in social media and search engines, and over 1000 journalists (or 15 percent of the journalism workforce) were made redundant. Journalism graduates therefore need to be flexible, innovative and enterprising to survive professionally in this evolving setting. Additionally, financial and funding pressures on universities are leading them to reduce course costs and deliver more courses online. Elongated unpaid internships provide real world experience but access to these will likely reduce as workforces continue to contract. This article considers student feedback from three authentic experiential journalism projects in light of these changing times in journalism. It explores how the performative and very practical nature of traditional and digital journalism skills may be developed through a learning-centred curriculum anchored in authentic and experiential activities and settings. The article briefly considers some of the challenges facing journalism educators in delivering such a curriculum in e-learning settings, and sets out a simple framework for supporting the development of digital media workforce readiness.
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15429
Coolabah; No 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 122-142
Coolabah; No. 16 (2015): After the Water has been Shed; 122-142
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15429/18603
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15431
2017-08-30T10:21:14Z
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Janie Conway-Herron, Dedications and Acknowledgements
Conway-Herron, Janie
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15431
Coolabah; No 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 2
Coolabah; No. 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 2
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15431/18612
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15432
2017-08-30T10:21:14Z
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Editorial: When time Stands Still
Renes, Cornelis Martin
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15432
Coolabah; No 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 3-4
Coolabah; No. 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 3-4
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15432/18605
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15433
2017-08-30T10:21:14Z
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Mapping Our Heartlands: In Memory of Doctor Pam Dahl-Helm Johnston
Conway-Herron, Janie
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15433
Coolabah; No 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 5-19
Coolabah; No. 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 5-19
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15433/18606
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15434
2017-08-30T10:21:14Z
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Pam Johnston Dahl Helm: Lost to our Mothers
Diana, Wood Conroy
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15434
Coolabah; No 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 20-36
Coolabah; No. 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 20-36
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15434/18607
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15435
2017-08-30T10:21:14Z
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We Shimmer We Shine
Trevor, Avery
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15435
Coolabah; No 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 37-45
Coolabah; No. 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 37-45
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15435/18608
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15436
2017-08-30T10:21:14Z
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2+2=5: A Collective Inspiration
C. Moore, Hardy
Cate, McCarthy
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15436
Coolabah; No 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 46-52
Coolabah; No. 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 46-52
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15436/18611
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15437
2017-08-30T10:21:14Z
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DR PAM JOHNSTON, MY BIG ‘BLISTER’ SISTER
Pauline, Mitchell
University of Barcelona
2016-03-17
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15437
Coolabah; No 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 53-54
Coolabah; No. 14 (2014): Special Monographic Issue: When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academ; 53-54
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15437/18609
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15516
2017-07-27T13:41:28Z
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Aspiration, Achievement and Abandonment in ‘The World’s Best Country’: Merit and Equity or Smoke and Mirrors?
Hoffman, David M.
Pöyhönen, Sari
Cools, Carine
Stikhin, Anatoly
Habti, Driss
Siekkinen, Taru
Sama, Thomas
Academic Work
Mobility
Transnational scholarly precariousness
Stratification
Self-Ethnography
Finland is internationally valorised for its education system, quality of life and high-tech, innovative, competitiveness. However, a critical focus on institutional dynamics and trajectories of higher education careers illuminates questions about the reproduction of global inequities, rather than the societal transformation Finland’s education system was once noted for. The purpose of this self-ethnography of career trajectories within Finnish higher education is designed to call attention to institutional social dynamics that have escaped the attention of scholarly literature and contemporary debates about academic work and practice within highly situated research groups, departments and institutes. Our analysis illuminates emergent stratification, in a country and institution previously characterized by the absence of stratification and the ways in which this reinforces - and is reinforced by – the tension between transnational academic capitalism, methodological nationalism and the resulting global division of academic labour that now cuts across societies, manifesting within the one institution Finland’s general population trusts to explain, engage and ameliorate stratification: Higher Education.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 17 (2015): Special monograph edition: Aspiration, Achievement and Abandonment in ‘The World’s Best Country’; 1-76
Coolabah; No. 17 (2015): Special monograph edition: Aspiration, Achievement and Abandonment in ‘The World’s Best Country’; 1-76
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15516/18673
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15517
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On
Alonso Breto, Isabel
Grau Perejoan, Maria
Hoyos, Kathleen
Phillips, Bill
Renes, Cornelis Martin
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15517
Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; i-iii
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; i-iii
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15517/18674
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15518
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Nation, Identity, and Subjectivity in Globalizing Literature
Arimitsu, Yasue
nation
subjectivity
globalizing literature
Since the end of the 20th century, particularly after the Cold War ended, national borderlines have been redrawn many times in the areas of the Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and a wide range of Asia, and people started crossing national borderlines to immigrate to other countries. As a result, the definition of a modern nation with one ethnicity, one language, and one culture collapsed. Under the policy of multiculturalism, Australia accepts immigrants from all over the world, and Australian literature at present is characterized as being ethnically, culturally, and linguistically hybrid. In this paper I look at Australian writers such as Brian Castro and Nam Le and compare them with other writers who are considered post-colonial writers, such as Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul and Kazuo Ishiguro. I focus on how these writers attempt to present their identities along with their subjectivities. I also compare them with a Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami, whose literary works are widely read throughout the world, crossing cultural, ethnic, and language barriers, even though he writes in Japanese and has a mono-cultural background. I investigate the reason why Murakami’s works are accepted by many contemporary readers worldwide. I finally explore the meaning of national identity and subjectivity in the globalizing world, and clarify the transformation of modern literature.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 1-12
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 1-12
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15518/18675
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15519
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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The grass that they cut and trample and dig out and sprout roots again”: The Spiritual Baptist Church in Earl Lovelace’s The Wine of Astonishment
Grau Perejoan, Maria
Earl Lovelace
Creole art forms
Spiritual Baptist church
steel pan
resistance
Earl Lovelace’s fiction can be said to, ultimately, work as a force to give validity to the Creole culture created out of the coming together of many worlds in the Caribbean. As in his novel The Dragon Can’t Dance, which celebrated those Creole art forms around Carnival, in his next novel, The Wine of Astonishment (1982), i Lovelace celebrates yet another Creole institution, the Trinidadian African-derived church of the Spiritual Baptists. In the novel the Spiritual Baptist church, made to be seen as the darkness from which natives needed to be weaned by colonial authorities, is celebrated and acknowledged as one of the basis that allowed for the creation of a new society away from the colonial narrowness. In The Wine of Astonishment, the resistance put up by Spiritual Baptist practitioners, in spite of the prohibition and violence endured, is acknowledged, celebrated and recognised as one of the milestones in Caribbean history. This article will trace, as reflected in the novel, the evolution of the Spiritual Baptist church, and will analyse its symbolical relation to another art form created in the New World: the steel pan movement. All in all, this article will examine the survival of this Trinidadian African-derived church together with the emergence of the steelpan as two of the most salient testimonies of cultural survival and creolisation of the nation.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 13-21
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 13-21
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15519/18899
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15520
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Pacific Studies: Quo Vadis?
Holden Rønning, Anne
area studies
Australia
New Zealand
Looking back to the past this paper discusses why Pacific studies and in particular Australasian studies became an area of interest in tertiary education in Europe. What subject areas initiated these studies, and how do past legacies shape the present? With cutbacks in higher education over the past two decades the future of interdisciplinary studies and the humanities looks bleak. At the same time due to global business and increased political communication across borders there is a vibrant interest in and need for such studies among businesses and students. For most Europeans the literature of settler countries, with their European legacy, makes access to ways of thought and culture easier than studies of countries with other mythological backgrounds. In today’s multicultural environment such studies can provide knowledge for an understanding of other cultures and increase tolerance of the ‘other’. Area studies have relevance to our situation in Europe with increased migrancy, not least as a result of Schengen and EU regulations.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 22-32
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 22-32
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15520/18676
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15522
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Canadian Multiculturalism, Same as it ever Was?
Hoyos, Kathleen
multiculturalism
transnationalism
transnational literature
After the Second World War ended, Canada was no longer mainly composed of its two dominant ethnocultural groups, French and English, but rather constituted by polyethnicity; meaning, Canadian culture was made up of many different ethnic groups. Since then, Canada has actively embraced multiculturalism and on 12 July 1988, the House of Commons passed Bill C-93, ‘An Act for the preservation and enhancement of multiculturalism in Canada’. The Canadian multicultural experience has been much portrayed as a celebration of ethnicity where different cultural groups share their customs and learn from each other. However, it is recently being rumoured that the multiculturalism hype is not all it is cut out to be and segregates communities rather than integrate. According to Canadian authors Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka, “in much of the world and particularly in Europe, there is a widespread perception that multiculturalism has failed” (44). In this paper, I examine some recent common issues of concern, especially, racism and discrimination, through the literary expression of Canadian playwrights and writers such as George F. Walker, Cecil Foster, and Mordecai Richler. These writers are not meant to represent any ethnic group as a whole, but rather try to project a general feeling about the nation in individual ways. I will finally explore the idea of how perhaps multiculturalism in Canada is evolving into another state since migratory patterns and the social circumstances that Canada is facing in the 21st century have changed. Today, the idea of celebrating different ethnicities and customs is no longer as important as celebrating the transcultural or “transnational” aspects of relations between individuals and groups of immigrants.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 33-45
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 33-45
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15522/18678
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15523
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Standing the Test of Time – Barth and Ethnicity
Hummell, Eloise
Barth
ethnicity
Catalan ethnic identity
Ethnicity remains an essential theory for understanding societies in the 21st century. This paper focuses on how well Fredrik Barth’s 1969 analyses and insights in Ethnic Groups and Boundaries have ‘stood the test of time’. Barth’s theoretical framework sets out the subtle and sinuous frontiers of ethnic boundaries, the interconnectedness of ethnic identities and the continuity of ethnic groups. The messianic nature of this work will be explored by closely reviewing some of his less well cited assertions, including those regarding stigmatized identities, increasing structural similarities and the political organisation of ethnic groups. Considering the applicability of his theory in current times necessitates reflecting on what Barth may have omitted, oversimplified or exaggerated, such as the potential for multiple ethnic identities; the importance of the content of cultural practices, symbols and ‘traditions’; conflict and power plays within nation-states. ‘Looking back’ at Barth’s work on ethnicity assists in enhancing understandings of current social spheres and reconsidering the world around us. It also contributes to the early stages of the author’s current PhD research which includes a focus on Catalan ethnic identity.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15523
Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 46-60
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 46-60
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15523/18679
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15524
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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The World of Bullying: An Overview and Reflexion
Martinez-Criado, Gerard
bullying environment
resisting
bullying
adolescence
The issue of bullying is of growing concern in developed countries. Considerable effort has been carried out to understand the problem and implementation programs have been launched to deal with this issue. In this paper we aim to define the concept of bullying and to present some data in relation to causes of bullying which have been highlighted by different researchers around the world. We aim to shed some light on the question of how to fight against bullying. Our conclusions stress the difficulties in conceptualising and researching bullying derived from cultural/social factors and from factors that relate to adolescence as a transitional and vulnerable period in life.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15524
Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 61-73
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 61-73
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15524/18680
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15525
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Vested Interests: the Place of Spanish in Australian Academia
Martínez-Expósito, Alfredo
Spanish in Australia
Teaching of Spanish
Discipline of Spanish
The history of Spanish departments in Australian universities can be traced back to the 1960s, when a number of British hispanistas relocated to Australia and created a small number of successful teaching programs that reproduced the British model. A second generation of Spanish scholars arrived in the 1980s and 1990s, mainly from Latin American countries, in a migration wave that is still current. The transition from a British understanding of the Spanish discipline, with a strong focus on (canonical) literary studies, to current curricula that emphasise communicative skills and a loose notion of cultural studies, is symptomatic of deeper changes in the way the discipline has sought to reposition itself in the context of the Modern Languages debate.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15525
Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 74-86
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 74-86
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15525/18900
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15527
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Memory Revisited in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
Oró Piqueras, Maricel
Spanish in Australia
Teaching of Spanish
Discipline of Spanish
The history of Spanish departments in Australian universities can be traced back to the 1960s, when a number of British hispanistas relocated to Australia and created a small number of successful teaching programs that reproduced the British model. A second generation of Spanish scholars arrived in the 1980s and 1990s, mainly from Latin American countries, in a migration wave that is still current. The transition from a British understanding of the Spanish discipline, with a strong focus on (canonical) literary studies, to current curricula that emphasise communicative skills and a loose notion of cultural studies, is symptomatic of deeper changes in the way the discipline has sought to reposition itself in the context of the Modern Languages debate.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15527
Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 87-95
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 87-95
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15527/18682
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15528
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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The Rhetoric of Inferiority of African Slaves in John Fawcett’s Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800) Re-evaluated in Charlie Haffner’s Amistad Kata-Kata (1987)
Pallua, Ulrich
Slavery Studies
Post-European Identity
Body
Materiality
Ideology
John Fawcett’s Obi; or, Three-Finger’d Jack (1800) draws a distorted picture of the life of slaves in Jamaica. This paper investigates the ambivalence in this distortion as Fawcett creates two kinds of slaves by pitting them against each other: the loyal and obedient slaves (but still inferior) vs. the superstitious-ridden and rebellious slaves deeply rooted in old traditions, thus considered inferior, uneducated, immoral and dangerous. The juxtaposition of what I call ‘anglicised’ slaves instrumentalised by the coloniser and the heathen ‘savages’ that are beyond the reach of the imperial ideology enables Fawcett to substantiate the claim that Christianity successfully promotes slaves to ‘anglicised’ mimic men/women who are then able to carry out its mission: to eradicate the pagan practice of obeah, three-finger’d Jack, and all those slaves that threaten the stability of the coloniser’s superiority. Charlie Haffner’s play Amistad Kata-Kata (1987) is about the heroism of Shengbe Pieh and his fellow slaves on board the La Amistad: on their way to the colonies they revolted, were sent to prison, tried, finally freed, and taken back home after 3 years. The paper shows how Haffner repositions the ‘Amistad trope’ in the 20th century by effacing the materiality of the body of the African slaves, thus re-evaluating the corporeality of the colonised slave in the 19th -century post-abolition debate by coming to terms with the cultural trauma postindependent African collective identity has been experiencing. The re-staging of the play by the ‘Freetong Players’ in 2007/8 commemorated the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, a unique opportunity to direct the attention to asserting the identity of ‘Post-European’ Africa.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 96-106
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 96-106
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15528/18683
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15529
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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The Dead Walk
Phillips, Bill
Mendoza, Marlene
cultural studies
zombies
horror
monsters
uncanny valley
Monsters have always enjoyed a significant presence in the human imagination, and religion was instrumental in replacing the physical horror they engendered with that of a moral threat. Zombies, however, are amoral – their motivation purely instinctive and arbitrary, yet they are, perhaps, the most loathed of all contemporary monsters. One explanation for this lies in the theory of the uncanny valley, proposed by robotics engineer Masahiro Mori. According to the theory, we reserve our greatest fears for those things which seem most human, yet are not – such as dead bodies. Such a reaction is most likely a survival mechanism to protect us from danger and disease – a mechanism even more essential when the dead rise up and walk. From their beginnings zombies have reflected western societies’ greatest fears – be they of revolutionary Haitians, women, or communists. In recent years the rise in the popularity of the zombie in films, books and television series reflects our fears for the planet, the economy, and of death itself
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 107-117
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 107-117
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15529/18901
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15530
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Language and Bilingualism in Antigone Kefala’s Alexia (1995) and The Island (2002)
Ribas Segura, Catalina
language
bilingualism
“wogspeak”
hybridity
Greek-Australian literature
Antigone Kefala
Migrants modify the spaces around them: not only by leaving one territory but also by occupying another one. In fact, their physical appearance, their behaviour, their clothing, their preferences and/or their language may be factors used both by locals to pinpoint them and by immigrants themselves as identity markers. Greek-Australian Antigone Kefala explores the significance and uses of language in her tale Alexia: A Tale for Advanced Children (1995) and in her novella The Island (2002). In these texts, Alexia and Melina –the main characters, respectively- use language as a central tool in their struggle to make sense of the world they live in. Being migrants and bilingual, Alexia and Melina have a relation with language that is not understood by many, mainly locals. Kefala uses language as a marker of difference, but, as shown by Jane Warren (1999), this difference can also be a sign of ethnic pride. Consequently, this article not only explores the relation between language and the main characters in Alexia and in The Island but it also introduces other strategies migrants may use to approach languages. The questions to be answered are the following: “What is the relation of migrant characters with their mother tongue? And with the new language, culture, territory and space?” and “Are there alternative strategies?” The expected conclusions are that language can be understood as the ‘enemy’ and ‘friend’ (Kefala 1995: 104) which can both empower and disempower migrants, but which relates them to the space and people around them. Given the fact that language is a live entity, the strategies may be numerous and may vary in time.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 118-135
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 118-135
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15530/18684
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15531
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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The Northern Territory Intervention: The Symbolic Value of ‘Authentic’ Indigeneity and Impoverishment, and the Interests of the (Progressive) Liberal Left
Rolls, Mitchell
Aborigines
Culture
Identity
Tradition
Race
Symbolism
Class
In August 2007 the federal Howard government announced The Northern Territory National Emergency Response, known more prosaically as ‘The Intervention’. This initiative was hurriedly implemented to address a broad range of issues highlighted in ‘The Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse’. The report bore a title expressing a traditional Yolngu belief (north east Arnhem Land) that for some unexplained reason had been translated into a language from the central desert. This was paraphrased in the emotive and cloying English subtitle ‘Little Children are Sacred,’ and it is the latter by which the report is widely known. This paper does not canvass the ‘Intervention’ itself, but a specific albeit long standing issue it brought to the fore. Implicitly if not explicitly, many critics find in the ostensibly classical Aboriginal cultures of remote and impoverished communities an authentic indigeneity. For a range of interests arising most often external to the communities concerned, there is a reluctance to countenance any prospective change that could stem the replenishing of these supposed wellsprings of originary authenticity. In this respect both settler and Aboriginal critics have found common ground in arguing that they represent the interests of the communities on whose behalf they supposedly speak. In elaborating these issues the following paper discusses the divisions between opponents and supporters of the ‘emergency response’, the tension between those with investments in the issues of rights, racism, and identity, and the interests of those experiencing the impoverished conditions of so many remote and regional communities. Central to these debates is the fraught issue of who can speak for whom, with an Aboriginal elite finding their authority as spokespeople challenged by those whose interests they presume to represent. These issues help explain why so many of the Aboriginal elite and the liberal left in general emphasise racism and discrimination over class, and why a politics of difference is privileged over culture.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 136-155
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 136-155
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15531/18685
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15532
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Memory: The Theatre of the Past
Ryan, John
Memory
Australian literature
teaching curriculum
Gail Jones
This paper explores curricula where a cultural study of texts offers opportunities for New South Wales high school students to consider the discourses and stories that have continued to preoccupy and shape their own society and lives these last hundred and fifty years. Walter Benjamin’s astute observation that Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre provides the starting point for the discussion. In particular, the paper will explore the praxis of cultural studies scholar and novelist Gail Jones whose interests in modernity, memory and image currently engage high school students in their final year of study.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 156-163
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 156-163
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15532/18686
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15534
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Beyond Nation? Ludwig Leichhardt’s Transnationalism
Schlunke, Katrina
Ludwig Leichhardt
transnationalism
nationalism
Inspired by the conference theme of ‘Looking Back to Look Forward’ this paper examines the multiple ways in which the Prussian explorer of northern Australia, Ludwig Leichhardt, provides possible new directions for rethinking contemporary concepts such as transnationalism and nationalism. While the paper in its genealogical fashion assumes that the past is not simply available to us to be looked upon but rather is made to appear to us through various, material and ideological productions; it is still inspired by the possibility that re-imagining the past in the present can produce alternative and better futures
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 164-172
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 164-172
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15534/18688
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2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Colonialism’s Past and Present: Performing History at a Gold Rush Theme Park
Watson, Virginia
Australian mining history
theme Parks
Australian Indigenous history
The urge to seize, to claim the past in order to experience the truth of history is a powerful impulse - one full of desire for a time apart from the here and now. Conceiving and sustaining an experience of the past is today very big business. The ongoing development of the heritage, tourism and re-enactment industries inter-link with popular historical perception in ways that raise multiple questions about the relationship between popular and academic accounts of the past and the many other ways of performing history (Dening 1996). This paper takes as its starting point a gold rush theme park, Old Mogo Town in NSW Australia, and in particular, its erasure of all evidence of the Indigenous past. From here, it is my aim to develop a revised performance of that past- one that interrogates the catastrophe of colonialism and the fate of history currently expunged from the gold rush theme park of Old Mogo Town.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 173-184
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 173-184
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15535/18689
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2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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“Applying a Straight Bat to Living”: Food for Life
Llauradó i Duran, Francesc
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 185-238
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 185-238
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15537/18691
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15538
2019-11-19T09:19:09Z
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“For Was I Not Born Here?” Identity and Culture in the Work of Yvonne du Fresne, by Anne Holden Rønning (2010)
Fresno Calleja, Paloma
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15538
Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 239-243
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 239-243
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15538/18692
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15539
2017-08-30T10:21:23Z
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Travelling in Lawson's Tracks: A Review-Essay
Barnes, John
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 244-254
Coolabah; No. 13 (2014): Looking Back: Inspiration to Move On; 244-254
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15539/18693
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2017-08-30T10:27:34Z
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“Introduction to Coolabah special issue on placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production”
Boyd, Bill
Norman, Ray
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 1-18
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 1-18
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15543/18695
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2017-08-30T10:27:34Z
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“Red Dog: Film of the Year”
Blagrove, Anna
This article seeks to provide an overview and analysis of the 2011 Australian film, Red Dog as a popular cultural product from Western Australia. Set in a working class mining community in the 1970s, I argue that it provides a new outback legend in the form of Red Dog. This article stems from a review of Red Dog as Film of the Year written for the forthcoming Directory of World Cinema: Australian and New Zealand Second Edition from Intellect Books
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 19-24
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 19-24
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15544/18696
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2017-08-30T10:27:34Z
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Contrasting cultural landscapes and spaces in Peter Weir’s film Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), based on Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel with the same title
Holmqvist, Jytte
The following essay explores the relationship between contrasting cultures and cultural spaces within a rural Australian, Victorian, context, with reference to the narrated cultural landscape in Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967) and in the film based on the novel, by Peter Weir (1975). In the analysis of the five first scenes of the film, the focus will be on the notion of scenic- and human- beauty that is at once arresting and foreboding, and the various contrasting and parallel spaces that characterise the structure of book and film. The article will draw from a number of additional secondary sources, including various cultural readings which offer alternative methodological approaches to the works analysed, and recorded 1970s interviews with the author and the filmmaker.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15545
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 25-35
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 25-35
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15545/18697
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2017-08-30T10:27:34Z
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My immigrant plight or the question of 49/51
Dorrington, Anna
I have decided to approach this essay from a personal point of view. Would it help to read up about how other people did it, what were their coping mechanisms? Would it help if I could quote the statistics of how many elderly people emigrate back to their country of origin. Maybe, I say, but I am not in the business of statistics or politics. I am driven by emotions and my way of making sense of those is through my art practise. In fact, I tend to stay away from artists that line up too much with my work. The German artist Martin Honert comes to mind, but I will not look at more of his art, I want to find my own way within myself
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15546
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 36-44
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 36-44
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eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15546/18698
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Border Protection
Copland, Stephen
This paper investigates an installation of paintings exhibited at Macquarie University Gallery in 2009 in the exhibition called Raft – The Drifting Border (2002- 2004). The installation comprises of 147 miniature paintings depicting ever lighthouse in Australia. The title of the work, Border Protection is assembled to form the map of Australia. Borders like maps are a form of communication and information about places at different times and different situations. The installation identifies how the function of a lighthouse has changed as well as attitudes to the Australian coast with the division surrounding the asylum seeker debate
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15547
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 45-53
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 45-53
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15547/18699
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15548
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Purrumbete Verandah, 2008
Keen, Seth
In describing his 2008 digital video installation, a continuous 3 minute five second loop, Seth Keen introduces a contemporary engagement with the historic landscape of rural Victoria witnessed by Von Guérard in his paintings of the 1850s. Bringing together a background in documentary practice and graphic design, Seth is interested, as a media artist, in using digital technologies to explore forms of environmental portraiture that document relationships between people and place. In this video work, he revisits the location and landscape painting, From the verandah of Purrumbete, 18582 by Eugene Von Guérard.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15548
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 54-59
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 54-59
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15548/18718
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15549
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Wood for the trees
Garbutt, Rob
Costello, Moya
wood
trees
Lismore Regional Gallery
artworks
colonisation
Our paper focuses on the materiality, cultural history and cultural relations of selected artworks in the exhibition Wood for the trees (Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia, 10 June – 17 July 2011). The title of the exhibition, intentionally misreading the aphorism “Can’t see the wood for the trees”, by reading the wood for the resource rather than the collective wood[s], implies conservation, preservation, and the need for sustaining the originating resource. These ideas have particular resonance on the NSW far north coast, a region once rich in rainforest. While the Indigenous population had sustainable practices of forest and land management, the colonists deployed felling and harvesting in order to convert the value of the local, abundant rainforest trees into high-value timber. By the late twentieth century, however, a new wave of settlers launched a protest movements against the proposed logging of remnant rainforest at Terania Creek and elsewhere in the region. Wood for the trees, curated by Gallery Director Brett Adlington, plays on this dynamic relationship between wood, trees and people. We discuss the way selected artworks give expression to the themes or concepts of productive labour, nature and culture, conservation and sustainability, and memory. The artworks include Watjinbuy Marrawilil’s (1980) Carved ancestral figure ceremonial pole, Elizabeth Stops’ (2009/10) Explorations into colonisation, Hossein Valamanesh’s (2008) Memory stick, and AñA Wojak’s (2008) Unread book (in a forgotten language). Our art writing on the works, a practice informed by Bal (2002), Muecke (2008) and Papastergiadis (2004), becomes a conversation between the works and the themes or concepts. As a form of material excess of the most productive kind (Grosz, 2008, p. 7), art seeds a response to that which is in the air waiting to be said of the past, present and future.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15549
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 60-76
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 60-76
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15549/18700
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15586
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Art History in Remote Aboriginal Art Centres
Jorgensen, Darren
The 2008 Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art in Melbourne suggested in its theme of 'Crossing Cultures' that art history must revise its nationalistic methodologies to construct more international histories of art. This essay addresses the legacy of different eras and methods of writing the art history of remote Aboriginal artists. It argues that colonialism has structured many of the ways in which this art history has been written, and that the globalisation of art history does little to rectify these structures. Instead, art history must turn to institutions that are less implicated in the legacy of colonialism to frame its work. Rather than turning to the museums and art galleries who have provided much of the material for the art histories of the twentieth century, this essay suggests that remote art centres offer dynamic opportunities for doing twenty-first century art history. Founded in an era of political self-determination for remote Aboriginal people, these centres aspire to create an opportunity for the expression of a cultural difference whose origins precede the invasion and colonisation of Australia. Art centres and their archives present an opportunity to work through the legacies of colonialism in the art history of remote Australian Aboriginal artists
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15586
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 77-84
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 77-84
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15586/18712
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15587
2017-08-30T10:27:34Z
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Being There: Poetic Landscape
Berry, Marsha
place
landscape
interactive media
digital media
poetry
ethnography
cultural geography
placemarking
placemaking
In early 2012, I was invited by Pilbara Writers group in Karratha to make a poetry map for the Pilbara region when they saw the Poetry 4 U website (http://poetry4U.org ) where poems are pinned to geographic locations. I visited the Pilbara June 17 – 23, 2012 to commence the poetry mapping project with members of the Pilbara Writers group. By walking with video when writers took me to their favourite places I was able to document visceral intersubjective experiences of these places, of being there together, so that I could empathically share the writers’ sense of landscape. This paper discusses what happens when a hodological approach is taken to explore connections and flows between poetic expressions, places and landscapes.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15587
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 85-96
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 85-96
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eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15587/18713
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15588
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(Hardly) anyone listening? Writing silent geography
Boyd, Bill
experiential geography
geographical poetry
J. Douglas Porteous
geographical displacement
metageography
In 1984, J. Douglas Porteous challenged the geography world to silence. True geographical appreciation cannot be expressed in prose; the logical conclusion is for geographers to be silent. Given that they cannot be silent, Porteous advocated nontraditional writing, such as poetry. In 1994, Paul Cloke illustrated the power of reflective narrative for a geographer grappling to understand the world. In 1998, I started writing geographic poetry. In 2012, I draw these strands together in this reflective essay, drawing on a poetic journey over a decade old now. Can I reflect a sense of place or place-making that transcends traditional geographical expression? Did Porteous truly open a geographic window otherwise closed to me? I conclude the poetry does create geographical sense and sensibility, but more as constructed possibilities than as objective realities. The poetry provides glimpses into the experiences of geographical displacement encountered by many New Australians, and thus may best be considered as metageographical expressions.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15588
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 97-113
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 97-113
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15588/18714
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15589
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Poems
Merlyn, Teri
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15589
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 114-117
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 114-117
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15589/18715
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In Your Dreams: Travelling the road to Mandalay
Conway-Herron, Janie
imagining Burma
freedom and democracy
landscapes of exile
Since 2007, I have been travelling regularly to the Thai /Burma border to run creative writing workshops with Burmese women refugees. The stories that eventuate from the workshops are published and distributed internationally. I have never been inside Burma so my knowledge of the country has come to me via other peoples’ stories. Recent changes that have taken place in Burma give glimpses of hope for a democratic future and yet I remain on the edges of this country I feel I know intimately. In his memoir From the Land of Green Ghosts (2004) Pascal Khoo Thwe writes about the layers of distinctly different cultures that make up the country of Burma. After attending university in Mandalay Pascal was forced to flee after the arrest of his activist girlfriend. He joined the guerilla forces on the border and then through a chance encounter with academic, John Casey, finally made his way across the border into Thailand then on to England. This extraordinary story is more common than many people realize. When one considers the more than half a million refugees who have fled across the Burmese borders into neighboring Thailand over the last decade it is easy to see the tremendous ramifications that the political situation has had on the people of Burma. This paper is a meditation on the Burma of my imagination and the many permutations of country, culture and landscape that I have come to know through the people of Burma and their relationship to the lands of their birth. As a facilitator of other people’s stories I reflect on the ways in which the personal stories of lives lived inside Burma and on the borders of the country as refugees have helped me understand the situation there. The paper also explores the way narrative and advocacy, storytelling and capacity building have played a part in the democratic changes that are now taking place after more than sixty years of civil war inside Burma.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15590
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 118-130
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 118-130
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15590/18716
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15592
2017-08-30T10:27:34Z
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Aboriginal Culturation of the Environment in South Australia and excerpts from the novel The Glass Harpoon
Horne, Robert
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15592
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 131-147
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 131-147
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15592/18717
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15593
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The Imagined Desert
Drahos, Tom
The following analysis of the Australian Outback as an imagined space is informed by theories describing a separation from the objective physical world and the mapping of its representative double through language, and draws upon a reading of the function of landscape in three fictions; Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness (1899), Greg Mclean’s 2005 horror film Wolf Creek and Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 cinematic adaptation of Kenneth Cook’s novel Wake in Fright2. I would like to consider the Outback as a culturally produced text, and compare the function of this landscape as a cultural ‘reality’ to the function of landscape in literary and cinematic fiction.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15593
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 148-161
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 148-161
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15593/18719
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15594
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Patterns in the Dust
Drahos, Tom
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15594
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 162-176
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 162-176
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15594/18720
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15595
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Heaven and Hell at the Paradise Motel
Chudy, Tessa
This piece is taken from the novel “Heaven and Hell at the Paradise Motel” and the exegesis that together forms my PhD thesis. The three main strands of this thesis are Gothic, Noir and sense of place. The novel, ‘‘Heaven and Hell at the Paradise Motel”, is preoccupied with the natural environment, its subtle seasonal changes and the way the environment impacts on its human inhabitants and how they in turn affect it. The novel is, in a very Gothic sense, haunted by dreams, apparitions and narratives – specifically mini-narratives that reflect the nature of fairy tales, horror stories and urban myths. It contains elements of melodrama, horror, romance. The story follows a deeply dysfunctional family through a seasonal cycle: beginning in Spring and ending once again in Spring. A key focus for both the creative and the theoretical work was the everyday application of the Gothic and Noir – for example a house doesn’t have to be a castle to be haunted; people don’t have to be monsters to be monstrous. The dark, the strange, the sinister and the perverse lurk in the shadows of everyday reality, but also how these elements intertwined within the landscape.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15595
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 177-186
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 177-186
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15595/18721
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15596
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Finding a home: Harnessing biographical narrative in teaching and learning in cultural geography
Boyd, Bill
Rall, Denise
Ashley, Peter
Laird, Wendy
Lloyd, David
biography
reflective practice
postgraduate learning
cultural geography
autobiography
narrative
scholarly landscape
intellectual place
This paper describes the use of reflective biographical narrative, in postgraduate research supervision, in helping students develop their sense of place – an intellectual place – within the scholarly landscape. The example provided centres on the work of students who have found an intellectual home in cultural geography. Using planned and semi-formal conversation, a device emerging from the authors’ supervisory practices, this activity draws on the emerging tradition of reflective biographical narrative, in which biographical reflection is not merely reflection on knowledge, but a practical methodological approach to working with knowledge. We conclude that our approach provided positive learning outcomes for the students, all of who were better able to frame their research, using reflective biographical narrative, within a conscious sense of scholarly place, and to adopt such reflection as a key analytical tool in their respective research projects.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15596
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 187-204
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 187-204
1988-5946
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15596/18722
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15597
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Old Space and New Place: The Pilbara
Kuhlenbeck, Britta
This paper examines how spatial concepts of a region change over time and focuses on the Pilbara region in Western Australia as an example. Spatial concepts of ‘old space’ and ‘new place’ are employed to demonstrate how space gets re-written in the course of time. Re-writing of spatial concepts implies ontological shifts. By juxtaposing ‘old space’ and ‘new place’ concepts, questions of cultural values, the meaning of place – and of a region’s identity – can be explored. In the Pilbara region a specific cultural clash of Indigenous and non-Indigenous perceptions and use of space is evident. This paper theorises the culture and identity of the Pilbara region spatially. It employs the concept of spatiality that is one element in the ‘trialectic model of being’, as suggested by Henri Lefebvre, which consists of spatiality, historicality and sociality. Arguably, knowledge of ‘old space’ and ‘new place’ can enrich and inspire Australian culture, enhance cross-cultural understanding and break new ground in establishing a unique reconciliatory and conservation ethic.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15597
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 205-226
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 205-226
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15597/18723
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15598
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Snapshots from a West Coast Death Trip
Bullock, Emily
Tasmania’s west coast carries the memory of multiple colonial traumas – traumas associated with the violence and uprooting of an indigenous population and the punishment of convicts on the carceral Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour. This paper performs a ‘death trip’ through the west coast, a term borrowed from Michael Lesy’s classic country noir book, Wisconsin Death Trip, providing a psychogeographic tour through the material traces of what Peter Read calls ‘lost places’. Presenting an eclectic and fragmented collection of quotations, images, and impressions recorded of these places so as to communicate something of their broken texture, this paper also charts the multitude of affective encounters with these bad and lost places and traumatised ecologies. By tracking, in Kathleen Stewart’s words, ‘the traces of impacts’, this paper demonstrates not only the powerful material form that traumatic pasts take but also their displaced effects in a marginalised region which is continually overlooked in mainstream historical narratives.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15598
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 227-239
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 227-239
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15598/18724
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15599
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Interrogating Placedness: Tasmanian Disconnections
Norman, Ray
This paper sets out to interrogate Tasmanianness and its placemaking. The cultural landscape and social realities lived out in Tasmania are constructed around contested and contentious imaginings of place and the histories, the stories, that belong to it. In the end the question hanging in the air is to do with place and culture and ‘culture’s role’ in shaping ‘place’ – landscapes, artmaking, museums, etc. Tasmania, ringed as it is with water offers a model of containment that allows for the kind of prodding and poking not easily done elsewhere. Also, it has a history of a kind that is not easily found elsewhere. Nonetheless, like places elsewhere Tasmania has idiosyncratic stories that seem to wet everything all at once and all the time.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15599
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 240-265
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 240-265
1988-5946
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15599/18725
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15600
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A short historical investigation into cross-cultural Australian ideas about the marine animal group Teredinidae, their socioecological consequences and some options
Gardner, Mary
How are contemporary multicultural coastal Australians, Aboriginals and settlers alike, to develop wiser ideas and practices towards marine animals as well as each other? To illustrate the importance and complexity of this question, I offer a short historical investigation of some contrasting ideas and practices held by Australian Aboriginal and settler cultures about marine animals of the group Teredinidae. I present two “screenshots”: one from the period 1798-1826 and another from 1970-2012. The first period examines a negative but influential interpretation by Thomas Malthus of a cross cultural encounter featuring Australian Aboriginal consumption of local Teredinidae known as “cobra”. While this cultural tone remains largely unchanged in the second period, the biological understanding of the marine animals has developed greatly. So has awareness of the socioecology of Teredinidae: their estuarine habitats and cultural significance. Their potential role as subjects of community based monitoring is undeveloped but could serve overlapping concerns of environmental justice as well as the restoration and “future proofing” of habitats. Such a new composite of ideas and practices will rely on better integration of biology with community based social innovations. A symbolic beginning would be a change in Australian English colloquialisms for Teredinidae, from the erroneous “shipworm” or “mangrove worm” to the more accurate “burrowing clam”.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15600
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 266-279
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 266-279
1988-5946
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15600/18726
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Necklace making and placedness in Tasmania
Norman, Ray
This paper has been written against the backdrop of John B. Hawkins’ paper, A Suggested History of Tasmanian Aboriginal Kangaroo Skin or Sinew, Human Bone, Shell, Feather, Apple Seed & Wombat Necklaces, published in Australiana, November 2008, and the research it sparked. Hawkins proffered some contentious propositions concerning unlikely and speculative connections between Tasmanian Aboriginal shell necklace making and the making of so-called “Tasmanian Appleseed necklaces”. Within the acknowledgements section of his paper Hawkins said that he “[looked] forward to a response to [his] article by the museum authorities, for it is only by the cut and thrust of debate that knowledge can be further enhanced”. This paper takes up that challenge albeit from outside the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and totally independent of any institutional sponsorship.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15601
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 280-295
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 280-295
1988-5946
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15601/18727
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15602
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A Koori’s Perspective of Place: Connections to the NSW Upper South Coast
Wright, Terrence
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15602
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 296-304
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 296-304
1988-5946
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15602/18728
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15603
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305 Reflections: Remade, Reworked, Reimagined: Sally Brown talks about place
Brown, Sally
Norman, Ray
Boyd, Bill
For quite a long time it has been claimed that cultural production in Tasmania has an inimitable and idiosyncratic place within the scheme of things. Sally Brown, a young Tasmanian designer, maker, artist, is unlikely to make this kind of claim for her work. Nonetheless, there is a particular sensibility evident in her work that it is doubtful that one might find anywhere other than in Tasmania – or made by someone of an older generation. This paper attempts to unpick, through four reflections upon Sally’s work, some of the thinking to do with the placedness, the vernacular social paradigm, the subliminal politics, the ‘crafting’ and the cultural savvy that gives Sally Brown’s work its presence. The questions that hang in the air around a collection of Sally Brown’s work are those to do with the ways local cultural imperatives might shape and make places they are found in, and in what ways might places shape the cultural realities that inhabit them. The following reflections on Sally’s work are distilled from email and blog conversations.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15603
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 305-314
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 305-314
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15603/18729
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15604
2017-08-30T10:27:34Z
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driver
‘And she flies! Beautiful’: the dislocating geography of football sound
Trail, Margaret
sonic geography
sound art
football sound
The overarching interest of this paper is in articulating the affective conditions of football’s play. It undertakes this through a consideration of the sonorous dimension of football, mapping its sounds across a framework borrowed from recent writings on sound-art and sonic geography. Specifically it considers a continuum articulated by Will Scrimshaw (in relation to sound art exploring spatial notions), between sounds-of-place and sound-as-a-place. It then places sounds produced in football-play across this continuum, to see whether football’s sonic practices can be more finely articulated through doing so, and might in turn shed light on its affective conditions.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-01
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15604
Coolabah; No 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 315-322
Coolabah; No. 11 (2013): Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production; 315-322
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15604/18730
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15605
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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An Introduction to Pacific Solutions in Hindsight
Alonso Breto, Isabel
Renes, Cornelis Martin
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15605
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 1-6
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 1-6
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15605/18731
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15606
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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New Possibilities of Neighbouring: Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet
Arizti Martín, Bárbara
Levinas’s ethics of alterity
Reinhard’s political theology of the neighbour
community in Australia
I intend to revisit Winton’s popular family saga in the light of Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics of alterity and Kenneth Reinhard’s political theology, both built upon the Christian principle of loving thy neighbour. The story of two families, the Pickles and the Lambs, sharing house in post-World War II Perth, proves fertile ground for the analysis of the encounter with the Face of the Other, the founding principle of Levinasian philosophy. In his political theology of the neighbour, which aims at breaking the traditional dichotomy friend/enemy, Reinhard draws on Badiou’s conception of love as a truth procedure, capable of creating universality in a particular place. Thus, the vicissitudes of the two families in coming to terms with each other in their “great continent of a house” invite a metaphorical reading and echo Winton’s interest in promoting a sense of community in Australia.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15606
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 7-19
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 7-19
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15606/18732
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15607
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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The Malvinas/Falklands War (1982): Pacific Solutions for an Atlantic Conflict
Bellot, Andrea Roxana
Malvinas/Falklands War
pacific solutions
diplomatic failure
history
Although the Malvinas/Falklands War (1982) was relatively short and did not involve a great number of losses, it stands as an important blow in the collective memory of the two nations involved: Great Britain and Argentina. For the British, it was the last “colonial” war and one which allowed Margaret Thatcher to stay in power for almost a decade after the British victory. For the Argentine, it was the only war fought and lost in the twentieth century and it brought about the fall of the dictatorship. This paper will summarise the course of events related to the war, showing how the war implied a major nationalist project for both nations since national honour and national dignity were at stake. By making use of historical publications, this paper will also explore how and why some pacific solutions were ignored before the war broke out, as well as the failure of diplomatic negotiations in putting an end to the conflict.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15607
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 20-30
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 20-30
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15607/18733
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15608
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Current issues in environmental management in Australia – what do people think?
Boyd, Bill
Christidis, Les
den Exte, Kristin
Lloyd, David
environmental management
environmental policy
sustainability research
attitude surveys
In 2010, the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) published their Grand Challenges in Global Sustainability Research, seeking to mobilise researchers in a 10-year scientific effort to address what they call the “grand challenges in global sustainability”. In this paper, we ask whether these Grand Challenges are relevant to Australian environmental management. We examine this from two angles, insights from public perception surveys, and our own survey data. Public attitudes surveys indicate public ambiguity on the knowledge base, a finding that implies an immediate need for improved public communication of scientific knowledge. Our on-line survey, attached to a conference, Innovative Solutions for Environmental Challenges, targeted Australian environmental managers and scientists’ views on critical issues. The results mirrored global scientists’ views on the need to find ways for the scientific, social and political communities to work together to develop innovative approaches to solving future environmental concerns. Importantly, we found that the specific responses were context and scale dependent, while highlighting the inherent tensions between maintaining production and consumption, and protection of resources and ecosystem services.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15608
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 31-50
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 31-50
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15608/18734
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15609
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Connections and Integration: Oral Traditions/Quantum Paradigm
Collellmir, Dolors
native literatures
magic realism
quantum physics.
This paper begins by mentioning the deep connections between art and science and how these connections, which in certain periods of time had been practically ignored, have recently received much consideration. The present attention comes from specialists in different fields of science and humanities and the conclusions/solutions that they bring can be regarded as means of integrating. The paper briefly refers to examples in the visual arts which illustrate Einstein’s discovery of the double nature of light. Then it focuses on the possible relationships between literature and quantum mechanics. The novels Potiki and Benang, both from the Pacific region, are good examples to help us realize that notions concerning space-time that had been part of indigenous knowledge for centuries are now validated by recent scientific discoveries: the uncertainty principle and the principle of no-locality among others. Thus, native literatures that had been analysed in the frame of the traditions of their respective cultures, or even within the parameters of magic realism, can now acquire a new and stimulating dimension.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15609
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 51-61
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 51-61
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15609/18735
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15610
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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The Invisible Other and Symptomatic Silences: Japanese Poetic Visions of the Colonial Pacific in the 1920s
Ellis, Toshiko
modern Japanese poetry
colonial/colonialist vision
Dalian
In the 1920s when the Japanese empire was pushing its borders outwards, a significant number of Japanese civilians moved out of the Japanese archipelago to settle in or travel through its newly acquired territories. The encounter with the foreign landscape and the people who lived there took various forms. Through the analysis of poetic images characterizing the poets’ vision of “the other”, this article examines the ambivalent nature of the experience shared by young Japanese poets as they faced the realities of Japanese colonialism. I focus particularly on the poetic works by Anzai Fuyue and his fellow poets in a journal called A, published in Dalian, a port city at the tip of Liaotung Peninsula, which had been handed over by Russia in 1905 following the Russo-Japanese War. The vision of these settler poets is then briefly compared with that of another poet, Kaneko Mitsuharu, who traveled through the port cities in the Southern Pacific. The stark contrast in their respective visions of the local cultures suggests the strong self-colonizing motive on the part of the settler poets, who were struggling to acquire a colonialist perspective while concealing their own colonial unconsciousness.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15610
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 62-72
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 62-72
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15610/18780
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15611
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Creating inter-cultural spaces for co-learning
Everett, Kristina
Hummell, Eloise
Daruganora
inter-cultural
research led learning and teaching
Among the many inhibitors to social inclusion and mobility faced by Indigenous peoples in Australia, under-representation of Indigenous students in Higher Education has long featured as a concern for government and human rights advocates. This is due to the attendant lower social indicators than those of the wider Australian society which characterise Indigenous peoples’ life experience. UNESCO’s guidelines on inter-cultural education published in 2007 provide some principles for groundwork to develop classrooms which are inclusive but not assimilationist. Models of how this might be done in practice, however, are scarce. In this paper we consider a model for inter-cultural education which uses joint analysis and dialogue surrounding self-representation of Indigenous peoples by Indigenous and non-Indigenous peers to then co-create a new, inter-cultural representation. The ‘Daruganora’ program involves Indigenous students leading dialogue with nonIndigenous peers and teachers to jointly interpret a purpose-built Indigenous art exhibition. We explain in this paper how spaces created by this dialogue can allow open, honest and respectful interaction between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people relating to Indigenous representations of identity. We argue that Daruganora provides a model for inter-cultural classrooms.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15611
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 73-87
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 73-87
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15611/18736
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15612
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Protecting the Children: Early Years of the King’s Orphan Schools in Van Diemen’s Land
Frost, Lucy
Orphan Schools
female convicts
Colonial Australia
In the second decade of the 21st century, the Australian government has encountered a barrage of criticism from people outraged by its treatment of refugees. The Immigration Minister, accused of failing in his obligation to act as guardian of asylum-seeking children, has talked ‘tough’. Nearly two hundred years earlier, when Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur confronted the problems of administering Australia’s second colony, Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania), his approach was radically different. This paper considers how the colony under Arthur struggled with the government’s responsibility to protect vulnerable children in its midst.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15612
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 88-100
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 88-100
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15612/18737
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15613
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Pacific Solutions for the Environment: A Personal Journey
Fulton, David
documentary-filming
environmental protection
personal engagement
This paper addresses David Fulton’s career as a documentary filmmaker. In his own words, Fulton explains how his sense of responsibility for the natural environment and its interplay with human presence was established. His is a story of personal involvement and an emotional journey into a pacific solution for the meeting of man and nature.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15613
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 101-106
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 101-106
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15613/18738
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15614
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Merlinda Bobis’s The Solemn Lantern Maker: The Ethics of Traumatic Cross-Cultural Encounters
Herrero, Dolores
Merlinda Bobis
ethical criticism
trauma studies
post-9/11 novels
Merlinda Bobis’s second novel is an interesting combination of opposites: of the powerless and the powerful, the holy and the profane, the magical and the seedy, Third-World Asian poverty and white Western affluence. The Solemn Lantern Maker is a traumatized mute 10-year-old boy who lives with his crippled mother in the slums of Manila. One day, when trying to sell his colourful wares, he becomes involved in the life of a grieved American tourist who is caught up in a murder of a controversial journalist. In this post-9/11 climate, this event will soon be wrongly interpreted as a terrorist conspiracy. My paper will rely on some of the most relevant assumptions put forward by ethical criticism and trauma studies to show that Bobis’s novel succeeds in illustrating how the powerful world of international politics can inadvertently impinge on the small world of an insignificant Third-World child, and how the love and care that this child offers to an unknown distressed westerner eventually manages to play the miracle of transforming the latter’s life, thus making it clear that Bobis’s allegory of traumatic cross-cultural encounters testifies to the power of the (un)common to render the invisible visible, and of the unselfish circulation of affect to effect unexpected changes in an apparently indifferent globalized world.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15614
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 107-117
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 107-117
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15614/18739
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15618
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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It’s Not [Just] Cricket: The Art and Politics of the Popular – Cultural Imperialism, ‘Sly Civility’ & Postcolonial Incorporation
Jones, Andrew
postcolonial identity politics
popular culture
cricket
Lagaan
Ashutosh Gowariker’s critically acclaimed Lagaan (2001), is a marvellous piece of cinematic troubling, which, via an astute use of allegory, reflects upon identity politics and power relations in both colonial and postcolonial contexts. Bringing two cornerstones of Indian popular culture together, namely cricket and Hindi formulae films, Gowariker produces an engagingly, affective alchemy of image and sound, which intervenes critically in the discourses of British colonial rule. This article’s intention is to demonstrate the mimetic devices inherent in Lagaan’s narrative, and how they mirror the regional resilience evident in the global success of both popular Indian cinema and the Indian performance of cricket. The sport of cricket and its role and effectiveness within a larger colonial project, is contextualized and reconsidered by tracing some resistant tangents in the sports evolution and performance in the Asia Pacific region. Making the most of the South Asian diaspora, which has exploited the networks and routes of the former British Empire, Indian popular cinema, likewise, serves to illustrate the point that local cultural dynamics can add their own nuances to global media flows. Interdisciplinary approaches are required to traverse within and between cultures, and to underscore the deep currents of contestation, as well as the radical and often surprising politics that characterise popular culture. In this respect, a range of scholars from different fields of study are consulted; Ashis Nandy, Arjun Appadurai, Chandrima Chakraborty and Homi Bhabha amongst them. Their voices will help to open up uncertainties in the conventional discourses, and to articulate some of the cultural politics and poetics at play in Lagaan specifically and the performance of cricket more generally.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15618
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 118-131
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 118-131
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15618/18781
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15619
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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The target is food for all: what’s new in agriculture? A pacific army of farmers
Llauradó i Duran, Francesc
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15619
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 132-143
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 132-143
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15619/18741
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15620
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Community perspectives of natural resource extraction: coal-seam gas mining and social identity in Eastern Australia
Lloyd, David
Luke, Hannabeth
Boyd, Bill
community engagement
natural resource extraction
coal-seam gas
sustainable energy source
Using a recent case study of community reaction to proposed coal-seam gas mining in eastern Australia, we illustrate the role of community views in issues of natural resource use. Drawing on interviews, observations and workshops, the paper explores the anti-coal-seam gas social movement from its stages of infancy through to being a national debate linking community groups across and beyond Australia. Primary community concerns of inadequate community consultation translate into fears regarding potential impacts on farmland and cumulative impacts on aquifers and future water supply, and questions regarding economic, social and environmental benefits. Many of the community activists had not previously been involved in such social action. A recurring message from affected communities is concern around perceived insufficient research and legislation for such rapid industrial expansion. A common citizen demand is the cessation of the industry until there is better understanding of underground water system interconnectivity and the methane extraction and processing life cycle. Improved scientific knowledge of the industry and its potential impacts will, in the popular view, enable better comparison of power generation efficiency with coal and renewable energy sources and better comprehension of the industry as a transition energy industry. It will also enable elected representatives and policy makers to make more informed decisions while developing appropriate legislation to ensure a sustainable future.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15620
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 144-164
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 144-164
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15620/18742
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15621
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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The Decline of Violence is Surely a Good Thing
Phillips, Bill
violence
Steven Pinker
history
literature
Despite the widespread belief that the world grows increasingly violent, Steven Pinker's 2011 volume The Better Angels of Our Nature convincingly argues that the opposite is true. Tracing the history of humanity from its origins to the present day, Pinker shows how violence has declined, and that strong, stable government is the principal reason for this happening. The book briefly touches on the way literature may play a part in the reduction of violence through the transmission of empathy – the way in which stories about other people, even fictional people, teach us to comprehend more closely our fellow human beings. This article expands on Pinker's assertion and suggests that violence has also declined in literature, or become increasingly unacceptable to the point of rejection.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15621
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 165-176
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 165-176
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15621/18743
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15622
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Kim Scott’s Fiction within Western Australian Life-Writing: Voicing the Violence of Removal and Displacement
Renes, Cornelis Martin
stolen generations
absorption
assimilation
eugenics
Indigenous literature
life-writing
Kim Scott
trauma
displacement
identity formation.
It is nowadays evident that the West’s civilising, eugenic zeal have had a devastating impact on all aspects of the Indigenous-Australian community tissue, not least the lasting trauma of the Stolen Generations. The latter was the result of the institutionalisation, adoption, fostering, virtual slavery and sexual abuse of thousands of mixed-descent children, who were separated at great physical and emotional distances from their Indigenous kin, often never to see them again. The object of State and Federal policies of removal and mainstream absorption and assimilation between 1930 and 1970, these lost children only saw their plight officially recognised in 1997, when the Bringing Them Home report was published by the Federal government. The victims of forced separation and migration, they have suffered serious trans-generational problems of adaptation and alienation in Australian society, which have been not only documented from the outside in the aforementioned report but also given shape from the inside of and to Indigenous-Australian literature over the last three decades. The following addresses four Indigenous Western-Australian writers within the context of the Stolen Generations, and deals particularly with the semi-biographical fiction by the Nyoongar author Kim Scott, which shows how a very liminal hybrid identity can be firmly written in place yet. Un-writing past policies of physical and ‘epistemic’ violence on the Indigenous Australian population, his fiction addresses a way of approaching Australianness from an Indigenous perspective as inclusive, embracing transculturality within the nation-space.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15622
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 177-189
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 177-189
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15622/18744
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15623
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Mismatching Perspectives and Pacific Transculturality
Rønning, Anne Holden
transculturation
perspective
Pacific area.
Increased critical consciousness and awareness of interculturality in a global and glocal context at the beginning of the twenty-first century has increasingly used the concept of transculturation when discussing modernities. Politically transculturation can be used to describe processes of negotiation in contemporary society that lead to social awareness and solidarity, as well as ensuring the continuity of societies. The fusing of cultural forms leads to a mismatching of perspectives, hence some critics have preferred to use the terms translation and/or transliteracy to describe this concept. Transculturation is related to the “normal processes of artistic borrowing and influence, by which any culture makes part of its contribution to the conversation of mankind,” as Les Murray maintained, and “it engages multiple lines of difference simultaneously” with overlapping boundaries (Rogers 491). Referring to various authors and linking it to cultural appropriation and border crossings, this article examines how the narrative expression of Both Sides of the Moon, to cite the title of Alan Duff’s book, is a key feature of Pacific writing, in an area where centuries of migration from near and far have exposed different cultures to each other on social, political, linguistic and aesthetic levels. These ‘contact zones’, to use Mary Pratt’s words, provide the reader with constantly moving translated identities, cultural hybridity and a use of language that has a highly local significance in a global context.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15623
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 190-201
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 190-201
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15623/18745
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15624
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Indigenous Australian art in practice and theory
Wildburger, Eleonore
Ngurrara Canvas
cross-cultural (art) theory
non-western art exhibitions
At the centre of this article lies the famous Ngurrara Canvas, a work of art that has supported land claims in a Native Title Tribunal in the Kimberley region (NT) in 1997. This artwork serves as model case for my discussion of the cross-cultural relevance of Indigenous Australian art. My concern is, in particular, the role European art museums play in representations of the ‘Other’. A brief look at some sample exhibitions in Europe supports my perspective on Indigenous Australian art in crosscultural contact zones.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15624
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 202-212
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 202-212
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15624/18782
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15625
2017-08-30T10:27:44Z
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Error by Elizabeth Campbell (Review)
Phillips, Bill
There is something about the poetry of Elizabeth Campbell that syncopates like an idling Harley Davidson. In the poem “destiny”, written mainly in lines of fourteen to sixteen syllables, the urge to settle into a steady iambic rhythm is constantly frustrated, only to return again to its regular beat before once again hopping sideways in distinctive fitfulness.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15625
Coolabah; No 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 213-216
Coolabah; No. 10 (2013): Pacific solutions in hindsight; 213-216
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15625/18746
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Introduction
Ballyn, Sue
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 1
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 1
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15629/18748
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Bruce and Exploding Coffee Perculators
Ballyn, Sue
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 2-3
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 2-3
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15630/18749
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15631
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An Honorary West Australian Remembers Bruce Bennett
Barnes, John
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 4-6
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 4-6
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15631/18750
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Bruce Bennett – Colleague and Scholar
Caesar, Adrian
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 7-11
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 7-11
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15632/18751
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BRUCE BENNETT AO FACE FAHA 1941–2012
Eggert, Paul
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 12-15
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 12-15
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15633/18778
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Transcending the National in Australian Studies Bruce Bennett’s Influence on a Discipline
Haag, Oliver
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 16-18
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 16-18
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15634/18752
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15635
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Bruce Bennett: An Appreciation
Holden Rønning, Anne
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 19-20
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 19-20
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15635/18753
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That Picture of us Together on the Castle Bridge in Verona. Bruce Bennett in Italy
Riem Natale, Antonella
Bindella, Maria Teresa
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 21-22
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 21-22
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15636/18754
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Bruce Bennett
MacDermott, Doireann
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 23-24
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 23-24
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15637/18755
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15638
2017-08-30T10:35:47Z
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Taking Miles Franklin to the Voortrekkers: Memoir
Walker, Shirley
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 25-31
Coolabah; No. 9 (2012): Bruce Bennet: In memoriam; 25-31
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15638/18756
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2017-08-30T10:35:55Z
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Remembering Ruby
Johnson, Pam
Conway-Herron, Janie
‘Remembering Ruby’ is a tribute to Doctor Ruby Langford Ginibi, a remarkable woman and an important Australian writer. Winner of numerous awards for her contribution to literature, as well as to Australian culture, Ruby was an Aboriginal Elder of the Bundjalung nation and a tireless campaigner for the rights of her people. Ruby’s writing is passionate, sincere and heart-felt, as well as extraordinarily funny and articulate. She knew that getting people to listen to her story would be fundamental to naming the hidden history of Indigenous Australia and to changing cultural perceptions in a broader context. As an elder she took on the complex and demanding role of ‘edumacation’, as she called it, and her representations of life and culture continue to provide important reflections, from an Indigenous perspective, on the effects of ignorance, racism and colonisation in an Australian context. As Aboriginal mother, aunty, teacher and scholar her writing represents a particular Australian experience for a readership of people interested in human rights and equality the world over. This monograph, in honouring Ruby Langford Ginibi, is the written expression of an ongoing dialogue between the two authors about their experiences living in Australia and the way that Ruby has interconnected with us and influenced our experiences of growing up in an Australian cultural context. It also brings into focus the many ways that Ruby Langford Ginibi’s writing has been central to challenging and changing prevailing perspectives on the lives of Indigenous people over the last twenty-five years. An excellent communicator with a wicked sense of humour, Ruby’s tireless telling of the truth about the impacts of invasion on Indigenous people makes her an important cultural ambassador for all Australians. Ruby’s totem, the Willy Wagtail, is connected to being a messenger for her people and in writing ‘Remembering Ruby’ we aim to contribute to keeping her message of hope and resilience alive and, on the anniversary of her passing, to continue to honour her inimitable and eternal spirit.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 8 (2012): Special monograph edition: Remembering Ruby; 1-29
Coolabah; No. 8 (2012): Special monograph edition: Remembering Ruby; 1-29
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15650/18767
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15651
2017-08-30T10:39:14Z
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Urban Aboriginal Creation Stories and History: contesting the past and the present
Everett, Kristina
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 7 (2011): The Eleventh Doireann MacDermott Lecture; 1-14
Coolabah; No. 7 (2011): The Eleventh Doireann MacDermott Lecture; 1-14
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15651/18768
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2017-07-27T13:41:20Z
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Do you believe in magic? The Potency of the Fantasy Genre
Stephan, Matthias
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Genre
The Buried Giant
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
Star Wars
Tolkien
This article explores the popularity of the fantasy genre in the recent decades. In so doing, it seeks to provide a definition of the genre, claiming that fantasy literature is fiction that offers the reader a world estranged from their own, separated by nova that are supernatural or otherwise consistent with the marvelous, and which has as its dominant tone a sense of wonder. It does this through a discussion of previous definitions of fantasy, the fantastic, science fiction and supernatural horror. Furthermore, through a consideration of texts by Tolkien, and an exploration of contemporary novels (Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant; Terry Brooks The Sword of Shannara trilogy) and other franchises (Star Wars), it demonstrates how the generic boundaries should be read outside of the traditional limitations, and how these texts, coupled with contemporary technology, offer a freer range to imagination and make fantasy a potent critical force.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 3-15
Coolabah; No. 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 3-15
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO201618/18769
oai:revistes.ub.edu:article/15653
2017-07-27T13:41:20Z
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Reflections on an Australian Fantasy: constructing the impossible
Ryan, John
Australian fantasy
difference
ethics
Eurocentric
genre
imagination
The following article explores the importance of fantasy as an important literary form. I specifically focus on the social function of fantasy genre texts produced in the Australian context to address the following key questions. First, is there such a thing as Australian fantasy? And second, what are the ethical considerations and issues around the use of Aboriginal and European mythic systems to provide non-indigenous writers with their material for creating fantasy worlds?
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO20161803
Coolabah; No 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 16-22
Coolabah; No. 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 16-22
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO20161803/18835
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2017-07-27T13:41:20Z
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Postcolonial Rewritings of Bram Stoker´s Dracula: Mudrooroo’s Vampire Trilogy
Renes, Cornelis Martin
postcolonialism
Indigeneity
Mudrooroo
Colin Johnson
the Fantastic
the Gothic
vampire fiction
Indigenous-Australian fiction has experimented with subgenres of the Fantastic in various ways to secure an empowering location from which to address post/colonial dispossession. In the mid-1990s, the Australian writer and critic Mudrooroo, formerly known as Colin Johnson, proposed Maban Reality as a genre denomination for fiction which introduces the reader to the powerful and empowering universe of the Aboriginal maban or shaman, also known as the Dreaming. Mudrooroo’s coining of Maban Reality was a way of establishing an Australian variant of Magic Realism which defied a European epistemology of the universe, engaging and enabling Dreamtime spirituality as a solid pillar of Aboriginal reality. Mudrooroo had already experimented with a postcolonial reversal of the Gothic, a dark version of the Fantastic, in the first of his Tasmanian quintet, Dr Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World (1983), but left its gloomy resignation to a dire Indigenous fate under colonial rule behind for the upbeat Master of the Ghost Dreaming (1993). Yet, as the result of a deep personal crisis—believed not to have an Aboriginal bloodline, in the mid-1990s he was barred from the tribal affiliation he had long claimed—Mudrooroo resorted to the gloominess of the postcolonial Gothic again in a vampire trilogy to reflect on the devastating impact of colonisation on Australian identity at large. This essay comments on the ways in which he has reflected on the present state of Australianness by rewriting Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO2016184
Coolabah; No 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 23-37
Coolabah; No. 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 23-37
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO2016184/18770
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Into an Age of Cultural Contagion: Vampiric Globalisation in Mudrooroo’s Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series
Bildsøe, Helle
Mudrooroo
Maban Realism
Gothic vampire
globalisation
cultural contagion
This article revisit’s the work of Mudrooroo in a new and timely framework of globalisation. I argue that Mudrooroo’s Master of the Ghost Dreaming series comprises a globalisation narrative. The series performs a transmutation of the conventional postcolonial narrative in which the forces of colonialism are made known and subverted. It identifies a novel power within the Australian landscape. This new power, personified by the vampire Amelia Fraser, is more dangerous even than the white colonisers. Whereas colonial forces operate through bounded Orientalist discourses of self/other, civilised/uncivilised, white/black, Amelia’s vampiric domination operates through, and is sustained by, a practice of uncontainability. Mudrooroo’s vampire has previously been read as a metaphor for white predatorial colonialism. However, I propose that Mudrooroo’s vampire Amelia is more adequately understood as the epitome of boundless cultural contagion. I consider that when thus reassessed within a global rather than a postcolonial framework, the Master of the Ghost Dreaming series provides an imaginative account of Australia’s emergence as a space of (cultural) contamination. This space corrupts and collapses discourses of authenticity and purity, thereby engendering radically new visions of being-in-the-world as informed by multivalent experiential entanglements. Through a fusion of fantastic genres that interweaves maban, mythic, and European gothic modes, the series explores the Australian landscape as a site defined by (cultural) contagion.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 38-52
Coolabah; No. 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 38-52
1988-5946
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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO20161805/18771
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Searching for the fantastic: an Australian case
Holden Rønning, Anne
fantasy
Australia
myth
the fantastic
Fantasy is the ability of the imagination to visualize and textualize non-existent worlds as real. It is an escape to an imaginary present or past, but often expresses direct criticism of the real world or moral issues. The relation between fantasy literature and myth, the fairytale, and legends is highly complex. Is fantasy and the fantastic just the strange and unknown, and what is its purpose? Is it only imaginary worlds that can be defined as such and what is the role of the reader/listener in interpreting these texts as fantasy? This article will discuss what we mean by fantasy literature in relation to a recent collection of novellas, Legends of Australian Fantasy, their use of myth and its literary expression.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 53-66
Coolabah; No. 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 53-66
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO20161806/18838
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The Carnivalesque in George MacDonald’s The Light Princess
Jarrar, Osama
Carnival
Humour
Parody
Children’s literature
In this article, I apply Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of carnival to an analysis of George MacDonald’s The Light Princess (1864). First, I define the concept of ‘carnival’ as explained in Bakhtin’s Rabelais and his World (1965). The subversive characteristic of the carnival which Bakhtin writes of is paramount in fantasy literature, of which The Light Princess exemplifies various elements. Brian Attebery says, “fantastic literature, as a literature that provokes reinterpretations of ‘reality’ and the boundaries of what is known and accepted, plays an important role in Bakhtin’s criticism” (117). Second, I provide an overview of various critical responses to the ideological function of carnival, applying a special focus on how children’s literature criticism benefits from carnival by referring to critics such as John Stephens and Maria Nikolajeva. Finally, I examine ways in which MacDonald uses the carnivalesque mode to convey his ideas of social reform.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 67-84
Coolabah; No. 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 67-84
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO20161807/18772
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A Glitch in the Script: Fantasy, Realism and the Australian Imagination
Conway-Herron, Janie
Fantasy
reality
Australian television drama
Gothic
Magic Realism
The Glitch is a six-part television series first aired on the Australian public broadcast network, the ABC, in July 2015. My interest is in ways that the series reflects certain aspects of Australian culture and history and, in particular, how inclusive the series has been in representing Indigenous Australian ways of seeing this history. The Glitch — set in a fictional Australian outback town where a number of residents who have lived and died there return from the dead — holds great potential for critiquing the cultural and perceptual frameworks that have created what popular culture often describes as ‘quintessential Australianness.’ Narrative genres that have a particular relevance in framing Australian identity within a postcolonial context are also important to my examination. They provide a way to explore the aesthetics of identity in the play between reality and unreality where an Australian Gothic sense of the uncanny is contrasted with the subversive way Magic Realism places the extraordinary within the same realm of the possible as the ordinary everyday event. This aligns with contemporary analyses of Australian Indigenous narratives where Indigenous perceptions of reality question a Western hegemonic view of what is magic and what is real and highlights the cultural origins of both. It is the mix of the mysterious and the mundane and the play between reality and fantasy that has enormous potential in The Glitch. However, as I also discovered, maintaining the magic and the real in such a delicate and continuous balance is no easy task.
University of Barcelona
2016-04-06
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Coolabah; No 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 85-99
Coolabah; No. 18 (2016): Reflections on Fantasy and the Fantastic; 85-99
1988-5946
eng
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/CO20161808/18773
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